Radio Astronomy

The Very Large Array (VLA) consists of 27 antennas arranged in a huge Y pattern up to 22 miles across. Each antenna is 25 meters (81 feet) in diameter and it is located on the Plains of San Augustine, west of Socorro, in New Mexico, USA.

Want to help with the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Inteligence?
Then take a look at the SETI League home page.
This is what the 'Wow' signal looked like. It was
received at the
Big Ear radio observatory in 1977.
Here is a bigger version of the 'Wow' image.

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Here is a false-colour image showing the entire sky, measured at 408 MHz. The data, from SkyView is shown in an RA-dec coordinate frame. The angular resolution of the image is 0.85 degrees.
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